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Release Date:
December 7, 1944
Original Title:
雷撃隊出動
Alternate Titles:
Raigekitai Shutsudô
The Torpedo Squadron Moves Out
動出隊撃雷
Genres:
War
Production Companies:
TOHO
Production Countries:
Japan
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 95
Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their torpedo techniques. Mikami is posted as a staff officer at a base on an island in the Pacific. Kawakami and Murakami later joins him as the base squardron is reinforced. The enemy task force approaches the island and all three of them attack the fleet, killing themselves in the process.
Assistant Director:
Ishirō Honda
Director:
Kajirō Yamamoto
Director of Photography:
Yoshimi Hirano
Asakazu Nakai
Hiroshi Suzuki
Original Music Composer:
Seiichi Suzuki
Producer:
Haruo Mura
Production Design:
Takashi Matsuyama
Satoru Chûko
Screenplay:
Kajirō Yamamoto
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